Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Stourbridge Chapel is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A Mid C12 Chapel.
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Stourbridge Chapel
- WRENN ID
- proud-rotunda-ridge
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Stourbridge Chapel, Newmarket Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 471 594
- Coordinates
- 52.21393, 0.15261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, also known as Stourbridge Chapel, is a complete and largely unaltered chapel dating from the mid-12th century. It consists of a chancel and nave, with a roof added in 1400. The west wall was altered in 1867. The building is constructed from ashlar, flint, and brick, topped with a tiled roof. It features unusual architectural and carved decorations from the tile period. The chapel is owned by the Cambridge Preservation Society.
Local climate
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Stourbridge Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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